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Example sentences for: heinous

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Journalists tend to think that libel law exists to let rich and famous slimeballs escape criticism, but there are times when the law, even the notoriously anti-press British version of it, does what it's supposed to do: protect the innocent against unfounded accusations of crimes of a heinous nature.
In rare instances, an individual not universally admired, like Jesse Jackson, earns the label, but heinous figures are never “charismatic.”
Note to editors: Enough with the automatic full-three-name treatment of heinous criminals.
The baroque rhetorical tricks buried in Hitler's most heinous utterances help us make the most difficult of biographical connections--the one between the mature Hitler and the young one.
Headed by Nobel Peace Prize-winner and anti-apartheid activist Desmond Tutu, the committee grants amnesty to all who confess to political crimes, as long as the crimes are not "disproportionately" heinous.